[sork] Aliases and Vacation

Tommi Sakari Uimonen tuimonen at cc.hut.fi
Tue Aug 17 04:32:56 PDT 2004


>> -a alias1 alias2 alias3
>> or
>> -a alias1 -a alias2 -a alias3
>>
>> It only works with the second option for me but vacation use the first option.
>
> It seems vacation doesn't support multiple aliases at all. It assumes you only
> entered one, and the whole entry is then appended after the -a. If you enter
> multiple aliases the result is a string that won't work (the first format).

I hacked a few years ago a solution that reads the aliases from 
/etc/aliases and used the '-a alias1 -a alias2 -a alias3 username' for 
vacation. The vacation was from RedHat 7.2

Tommi Uimonen


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